French frigate Sémillante (1841)
Fragments of Sémillante, on display at Port-Louis naval museum | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Sémillante |
| Namesake | "Sparkling"or "frisky" |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | 13 March 1827 |
| Launched | 6 February 1841 |
| Stricken | 15 February 1855 |
| Fate | Wrecked 16 February 1855 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Surveillante-class frigate |
| Displacement | 2500 tonnes |
| Length | 54 metres (177 ft) |
| Beam | 14.10 metres (46.3 ft) |
| Draught | 3.80 metres (12.5 ft) |
| Propulsion | sail |
| Complement | 301 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
The Sémillante was a Surveillante class 60-gun first rank frigate of the French Navy. She sank off the coast of Corsica in 1855 with a loss of 693 people.